The Rio Report

Regular pitch-invader Mario Ferri has usually raised a few smiles with his impromptu appearances on the world's biggest sporting stages.

But this time, it seems, he's gone too far.

The Italian has caused a storm with his appearance during the World Cup last-16 clash between Belgium and USA in Brazil.

At first, Ferri's display raised nothing more than the usual disinterested yawns from bystanders.

But then this video footage emerged on the internet:

As you can see, it seems that Ferri only managed to pull off his pitch invasion by fraudulently talking his way into the stadium's wheelchair section.

He then abandoned his wheelchair and, taking advantage of the understandably more lax security in the wheelchair area, climbs through the fence and onto the pitch, where he showed off the following message on his t-shirt:

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No details have yet emerged of how Ferri got into the wheelchair section, nor if his antics took a spot away from a fan who actually needed it. Clearly, if that proves to be the case, his actions have gone beyond a bit of harmless fun.